Barbara Mennel
Associate Professor
Barbara Mennel received her PhD in German Studies from Cornell University in 1998. She holds a joint appointment in English and in the German section of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
She is author of The Representation of Masochism and Queer Desire in Film and Literature (Palgrave, 2007), Cities and Cinema (Routledge, 2008), and Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys (Wallflower Press, 2012). With Jaimey Fisher she has edited the volume Spatial Turns: Space, Place, and Mobility in German Literature and Visual Culture (Rodopi, 2010). She has published in Camera Obscura, Germanic Review, Modern Austrian Literature, New German Critique, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, Women in German Yearbook, and TRANSIT: A Journal of Travel, Migration and Multiculturalism in the German-Speaking World. She is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled “Reproducing Europe: Women and Labor in the Cinemas of the New Europe.”
Her research interests include transnational cinematic practices, feminist and queer theory, minority cultural production in Germany, European cinema, and the intersection of urban studies and cinema studies.
Contact
- office: 4219 Turlington Hall
- voice: (352) 294-2820
- fax: (352) 392-1443
- email: <mennel@ufl.edu>